Foxconn Former Executive Wanted Over Bribes, Next Magazine Says

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- A former Foxconn Technology Group
human resources executive is wanted by the Chinese police for
allegedly soliciting and taking bribes from migrant workers,
Taipei-based Next Magazine reported.

Assets of the former Foxconn executive for human resources
are frozen by Chinese authorities, Next Magazine reported,
citing people familiar with the issue who weren’t identified.
The executive solicited a 100 yuan ($16) bribe from every
migrant seeking a job with the company, according to the report.

Another former Foxconn employee was detained Jan. 28, in an
investigation of bribes payments from suppliers, Huang Mou-hsin,
deputy chief prosecutor of the Taipei District Prosecutors
Office said by phone this month. The Taipei-based maker of Apple
Inc.’s iPhones and iPads said last week it is cooperating in the
probe conducted by Taiwanese authorities.

Simon Hsing, a spokesman for Foxconn, declined to comment
on specific cases when reached by telephone. Foxconn alerted the
authorities in China and Taiwan to possible violations of law
and the company has been working with those authorities, Foxconn
said in an e-mailed statement sent today.

The Ministry of Public Security could not be reached after
work hours by telephone.